The Arizona sentinel., 1887-10-01
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The exports of the United States to Europe constitute in value more than eighty per cent of the entire ex- port trade of the country.
 A new amusement Is provided at the London fairs, known as "topsy- turvy." Passengers are securely strapped in barrel and then rolled about
 A station is to be established in St. Petersburg for the examination of food materials offered for sale in the city. It will be under the charge of scientists appointed by the govern ment
 There is watch in a Swiss mu- scum only three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, inserted in the top of a pencil case. Its little dial not only in- dicates hours, minutes and seconds, but also days of the month.
 In the City of Mexico every body Ives over a shop, if the house be two stories, or uses the lower floor for stabling the horses, quartering the servants, etc. Even milionaires often rent the ground floor of their swell res idences for business purposes. - Boston Budget.
 The thistle. that notorious pest of the agriculturist now covers extensive tracts of country in Southern Chilli It was introduced by m Englishman, who imported bushe1 of the seed and sowed it under the delusion that it would be valuable as fodder plant. - N r Ledger.
 The highest number of works ex- hibited in the Champs Elysees was in 1S80 when the total was 7,259. com- prising 5 042 pictures and 731 sculpt- ures and medals. The grand total of works of all kinds exhibited in the salons since 1872 is 74. 4OS. including 64, 147 pictures.
 A law has recently been enacted in Germany which forbids the use of colors or color preparations containing antimonN arsenic, barium, cadmium, copper, coraline, gamboge, lead, mer- cury, picric acid. tin, uranium or zinc, in the making of any article of food or confectionery.-M r Ledger.
 A Rio Janeiro journal asserts that on large hemp farm in Brazil twenty monkeys have been taught to cut the hemp and prepare it for sale. It is added that the animals are preferred to negroes, because they work much faster and the cost of feeding them is trifiing. Christian Union.
 Salmon are becoming very scarce in the upper Rhine. Though vast num- bers of the fish go down the river to the sea, only a small portion ever re- turn again, for the Dutch fishermen in- tercept the salmon on their way back by a most ingenious and complete sys- tenn of nets. Lately the Dutch caught over twelve thousand salmon in a week, so that the German and Swiss fsher- men higher up the river complain bit terly.
 The remains of cemetery belong ing to the age of the Gauls have re- gently been discovered in Paris, in the old Faubourg S. Germain, at the cor ner of the Rues Rocrof and Bellechasse. F.fty-two tombs have heen found with skeletons, most of which are skeletons of women and children. Many weap- ons and implements have also been nearthed-swords, lances and bronze and iron instruments of all descrip- tions. Brooklyn Eagle.
 The dog-messenger corps for the Germany army is being carefully trained just now by the Schwerin gar rison. Swift and intelligent dogs are chosen and are taken out by the patrols regularly to the outposts, where pencil-notes are tied to their collars and the dogs are dispatched back to a given point. When any of the garrison are maneuvering at night the dogs accompany the advanced sentinels of the bivouac and are taught to watch for and bark violently at the faintest sign of any one ap- preaching the camp.
 -Dr. Frank Boas, in report on the Indian tribes of British Columbia, says that the principal figure in the mythol- ogy of several of them is a raven, who created all things, not for the benefit of mankind, but to revenge him. self " Cannibalism is practiced by some tribes in connection with the winter dances, and there is a Kwakiutl tradition that one of their ancestors descended from Heaven, wearing ring of red cedar bark, and taught the people the cannibal cere- monies. The ceremonis have been adopted only in part by the Qomak s, who content themselves with eating artificial bodies. which they pre- pare ''by sewing dried halibut to a human skeleton. "- Boston Herald.
 ON THE RIVER VOLGA.